专八人文知识冲刺(1)

1. St. Lawrence and River Columbia are shared by both ____
A America and Mexico
B America and Canada
C America and Cuba
D America and Brazil
2. European settlement of Australia began in the late part of ____ when a British penal colony was established on the east coast of the continent.
A the 16th century
B the 17th century
C the 18th century
D the 19th century
3. Which sport is supposed to be America’s national sport and used to be call “American’s favorable pastime”?
A baseball
B basketball
C rugby
D cricket
4. The largest city in New Zealand is ____
A Auckland
B Wellington
C Christchurch
D Dunedin
5. After Adam Bede,____wrote The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner in which moral problems are discussed and psychological analysis of characters are emphasized.
A George Eliot
B Jane Austin
C George Dickens
D Charlotte Bronte
6.All of the following odes are written by John Keats EXCEPT____
A Ode to Autumn
B Ode to a Nightingale
C Ode to a Skylark
D Ode on Melancholy
7. Of____’s four famous comedies, the best known is Lady Windermere’s Fan.
A Oscar Wilde
B Richard Sheridan
C Bernard Shaw
D Somerset Maugham
8. If the air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) ____
A voiced consonant
B voiceless consonant
C vowel
D explosive
9. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is ____
A I.P.A
B I.A.P.S
C I.S.S

D S.S.I.P
10. With the ____, Latin words were added into the vocabulary of the language spoken in Britain.
A invasion of the Romans
B Christianization of Britain
C Scandinavian invasion
D Norman Conquest
答案BCAAA CACAB

考专八的人文知识这块真的不用太上心，我试过把整本人文知识的书都看完了。。该不会的还是不会，所以。大家可以把时间精力花在别处